@winner: Agreed. Incidentally, maybe the reason we in the US think that Europeans have a more sanguine attitude toward rape - at least in this case - is that France has been harboring an admitted child rapist for 30 years. Somehow that tells me that they're not taking it seriously.

@chinaplate: I don't think you can classify it as simply as that, at least given the quotes we've seen from the French and Polish governments. Polanski has already "atoned for the sins of his young years." "In the same way as there is a generous America which we love, there is also a certain kind of America which…

@Penny: On the other hand, if you like Ezra Pound, you are totally a Nazi sympathizer.

Hey, here's an interesting new quote from Whoopi; she seems to be taking a different tack now:

@MaWeiTao: The Merritt ruins every weekend trip I take to drive from NYC to visit my family in New Hampshire. After two relaxing days, I can feel my blood pressure and stress levels rise mile by mile as I get closer to NYC, stuck behind a Volvo going 45mph in the left lane while an Escalade (sometimes; otherwise…

Two doors notwithstanding...

Oddly, my car's not listed but shows up as 19MPG under the old rules and 18MPG (and therefore eligible, I think) under the new ones - 1999 Lexus RX300 AWD. Looks like I'm going turbodiesel shopping.

A simple, quick moment: a quarter-mile shy of the I-95 tolls heading north out of New York, a red Nissan Altima (heh) that's already elicited a "that guy's going to kill someone" comment from my fiancee cuts left across four lanes of traffic at probably 25mph faster than anyone else on the road, and slams on his…

@Jim K: I noticed that as well - I wanted to check back and see if there were any updates. I'm wondering if the dealership offered him a good deal in exchange for taking down the site.

@joshman: I agreed with you when I lived in California, but now that I'm in the frozen Northeast, the V70 XC looks pretty appealing. The standard V70 is FWD-only, and I need the extra traction and ride height to get up a hilly, unplowed driveway with eight inches of snow and ice on it. As for the body cladding, the…

@Unpossible: I was going to suggest adding "Photoshop of horrors" and "Kate Hudson, Drew Barrymore and Blake Lively somehow have mutant joint offspring!" tags, but yours works too.

@Ray Wert: Sorry, I didn't know if it was cool to bring up thetruthaboutcars here.

To anyone who worries about the death of Car & Driver in light of the internet: car magazines are a perfect example of a medium that won't (or at least shouldn't be) killed by the internet. No, you probably don't get your automotive news from Upfront any more, but the info most people look for from car magazines…